Finding Strength of Will

Here is a, well, lengthy, introduction that I wrote about myself and our story that I needed to write out for something I was doing: My name is Azalea and I think I have a much different perspective.   I LOVE being in a mixed orientation marriage.   Will and I met while going to school and shortly after meeting got engaged.     It was just,   right.   After being engaged a few months and getting to know each other a little better, he told me about his SSA.   It really didn’t mean much to either of us.   SSA was this odd thing he struggled with.   He struggled a little off and on with some things but I for the most part didn’t know about it and I really didn’t know of much effect it had on our marriage.   Looking back Will knows that it did have some effect but thankfully he was really blessed and protected.   Fast forward over a decade to June of this year.     A friend posted on Facebook a link to Josh Weeds c...

I am Azalea, Will’s wife. He is gay and I am the opposite.  I LOVE guys!  LOL  He was worried I would be uncomfortable at a North Star Fireside which was mostly all (SSA/gay) men.  Really?  You do know me, right?  A place where there are mostly men and for that matter kind, sensitive, caring men?  Sounds like heaven to me! So in the last few months my husband Will has embraced the fact that he is gay.  He is becoming a different person and it is so fun!  Our marriage is very solid and we are best friends.  I think that is what makes this all work so well. I love that my Will can see the big picture. He, much like Josh Weed, knew he wanted to go on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he knew he wanted to marry in the Temple and he knew he wanted to have a family and he knew that he wanted to remain a faithful Latter-day Saint. This is one of the reasons he was not going to be gay. Well, it gets to the poin...